Industry | Film production |
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Founded | 2010 |
Founder | Simon Kinberg |
Headquarters | United States |
Key people | Simon Kinberg Aditya Sood |
Genre Films, usually credited as Kinberg Genre, is a production company founded by screenwriter-producer-director Simon Kinberg.
Genre Films in April 2010 signed a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox, [1] which gave Fox "direct access" to ideas by Kinberg. [2]
Aditya Sood became president of production, and Josh Feldman became director of development.
In December 2013, Genre Films renewed its deal with Fox for three additional years. [3]
In 2016, the studio made its first leap onto television when ABC picked up Designated Survivor to series. [4]
In July 2019, it was announced that Kinberg and his Genre Films would be leaving Fox after 20 years. [5]
Year | Title | Director | Distributor | Notes | Budget | Gross |
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2020 | The New Mutants | Josh Boone | 20th Century Studios | co-production with Marvel Entertainment, Sunswept Entertainment and TSG Entertainment | $67-80 million | $49.1 million |
2022 | The 355 | Simon Kinberg | Universal Pictures | co-production with Freckle Films and FilmNation Entertainment | $40–75 million | $27.9 million |
Death on the Nile | Kenneth Branagh | 20th Century Studios | co-production with Scott Free Productions and The Mark Gordon Company | $90 million | $137.3 million | |
2023 | A Haunting in Venice | Kenneth Branagh | co-production with The Mark Gordon Company and Scott Free Productions | $60 million | $122.3 million | |
2024 | Lift | F. Gary Gray | Netflix | co-production with Hartbeat Productions and 6th & Idaho Productions | $100 million | — |
Release Date | Title | Director | Distributor | Notes |
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TBA | Avengelyne | Olivia Wilde | TBA | co-production with LuckyChap Entertainment [6] |
TBA | I Am Not Alone | Misha Green | Netflix | co-production with Bread & Circuses Entertainment & Freckle Pictures [7] |
TBA | Red Shirt | David Leitch | Prime Video | co-production with 87North & Free Association [8] |
TBA | The Running Man | Edgar Wright | Paramount Pictures | co-production with Complete Fiction [9] [10] |
TBA | Untitled international heist film | Shawn Levy | Netflix | co-production with Maximum Effort [11] |
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